Gross outgross out & grosses out grossing out grossed out grossed out 1. gross...out p.v. [informal] When something grosses you out, it upsets you or makes you sick because you think it is disgusting. You had to dissect a cadaver in your biology class? Yuk, that would've really grossed me out. Alex hates changing his little brother's diapers — it grosses him out. grossed out part.adj. When something upsets you or makes you sick because you think it is disgusting, you are grossed out. l was eating an apple, and I found half a worm in it. I was so grossed out that I almost threw up. head toward head toward & heads toward heading toward headed toward headed toward 1. head toward p.v. When you head toward a certain location, you move toward it. When you say that you are headed toward or are heading toward a certain location, you mean that you are planning to go there or that you are going there but have interrupted your journey and will resume it. Head for is the same as head toward. The escaped convicts must have headed toward Mexico. I'm heading toward Portland. Where are you going? Run up run up & runs up running up ran up run up 1. run up (to) p.v. When you run to a higher level or place, you run up or run up to that place. Run up and answer the phone if it rings, okay? If I'd heard the baby crying, I would have run up to his bedroom. 2. run... up p.v. When you accumulate a number of debts, resulting in a total debt of a certain amount, you run up a bill for that amount. Giving my son a credit card was a mistake — he ran up a $2,500 bill in only one month. Calling your family every week from Australia must have run a big phone bill up. run-up n. A large, sudden increase in the price, value, or cost of something is a run-up. Bill was lucky to buy 500 shares of the stock just before the big run-up. 3. run up (to) p.v. When you run toward people, you run up or run up to them. The prince didn't have any bodyguards. Anyone could have run up and attacked him. After the explosion, a man covered with blood ran up to me and asked for help.
1. shut up (about) p.v. [informal] When people stop talking, they shut up or shut up about something they are talking about. When you are angry and want people to stop talking, you tell them to shut up. Marvin talks and talks and talks — he never shuts up. I said I was sorry about crashing your car. Now will you please shut up about it! 1. shut... up p.v. [informal] When people or things cause you to stop talking, they shut you up. Toad was making jokes about his wife at the party until she gave him a look that shut him right up. I can't hear the TV — can you shut those kids up?
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